Like the police, the doctors also say that they found nothing on the bodies which will help in their identification.
Top police officers handling the Mumbai investigations, point out that it is early days yet to take a decision on the burial or dispatch of the nine bodies of the militants.
Says A N Roy, Maharashtra’s Director General of Police, “That decision will not be taken by us and we have not raised this point with anyone in Government as yet.”
In the meantime, at least one Muslim body in Mumbai, the Muslim Council issued a statement that the militants should not be permitted to have a burial on Indian soil.